Does internet hide the truth?

I wonder if internet so called virtual world how much is hiding truths, or is it hiding it at all. Let’s think.. who is placing information on internet? Who is trying to reach it? We do all, no one else. So if we post correct information we get the truth.

Let’s think about the meaning of ‘correct’ and ‘true’ here. In real life I see that many things which are ‘correct’ or ‘true’ for me does not the same for someone else or vice versa. ‘True’ or ‘correct’ here it is relative. So those information on internet is ‘true’ or ‘correct’ for some of us, not all.

Let’s think about social media, Facebook decided to fight with fake news. Some people are sharing fake information on purpose, may be to change the people ideas on the subject and to move people to some other direction.

Media companies are using social media as a tool. There are many examples lately, some are doing great job, some are not. Some are after transmitting the news, some are after numbers.

When I am thinking about myself, I built my environment at those social sites, no one else did. I have chosen to whom to connect to and whom to block. If I want to escape from the real world and from problems it is possible to do it at social sites.

Mask – De Young Museum

I listened one of political leader other day, he was explaining about the changes the government wants to make at the Constitution. Some people are against those change some are not. He said that he was blocking people who are not against it and who are badly swearing to him, because he is against the changes. I am doing same time to time, I am not a political leader, I don’t need to embarrass all. Do you think telling same things over and over to same supporters will make any changes?

So we ourselves are shaping our environment on social sites and on internet. If I think I am not seeing the ‘true’ or ‘correct’ things, I take some actions, change the way of I post, change the people I connect. What will be your actions?

However, there are many useless posts and news around. It is interesting for me to see how even educated people are sharing those. Anyway, all are done for a reason. There are many reason to connect, I sense the main reason is to profit from or to capitalize. I think these numbers are able to prove that:

By January 2017 according to Zephoria there are 1.86 billion monthly active users and 1.23 billion people are active daily on Facebook. Photo uploads 300 million per day.

There are 83 million fake accounts. If they are able to count fake accounts how come they don’t delete them? Most of the time wrong information comes out from those accounts.

On Google+ there are 375 million active users, total number of unique Google+ monthly visits is about 27 million, by September 2016 – (http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-plus-demographics-statistics/ )

I gave only two example of social sites, I keep wondering about how information technologies are keep going to manage all.

In conclusion I find many similarities between virtual and real world, we own selves are shaping our environment to profit from or to capitalize. I don’t think Internet hides anything, on contrary it mirrors us.